Bottle



PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904.

W. 11., WRIGHT.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO RICHARD A. ALTHOFF, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,124, dated January 5, 1904.

Application filed May 23, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in bottles; and its object is to provide an improved stopper or closure by means of which the reuse of the bottle may be readily detected.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a cylindrical stopperhavingmeans for looking it within the neck of the bottle. A disk of buoyant material is secured to the stopper and is adapted when released to open a passage through the stopper and fall upon the liquid contained within the bottle. A Weight of any suitable kind is fastened to the disk and may contain any desired inscription.

Figure 1 is a section through the stopper, the same being shown in position within the neck of a bottle. Fig.2 is a plan view of the buoyant disk. Fig. 3 is a section through the stopper detached.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, l is the neck of a bottle or other suitable receptacle having recesses formed in the inner surface thereof. A tubular stopper 3 is adapted to be fitted within the neck of the bottle, and to opposite sides of this stopper are secured bow-springs 4, which are adapted to be pressed inward into recesses 5, formed within the stopper when such stopper is inserted in the neck of the bottle. After the ends of these springs arrive in position beside the recesses 2 said springs are moved outward automatically into the recesses 2 and securely lock the stopper in the neck.

The lower end of the stopper is concaved, as shown at 6, and a convex disk 7 is adapted to be held seated thereon by means of a screwthreaded stem 8,which projects longitudinally through the stopper and is supported thereon by a suitable head 9. Locks 10 project upward from the disk 7 at opposite sides thereof and into recesses 11, formed in the lower end of stopper 3, and these lugs serve to prevent the rotation of disk 7 after the same has been placed in position within the convexed end SerialNo. 158,625. on inodel.)

of the stopper. A weighted disk 12 is connected to disk 7 by means of a flexible strip 13.

In sealing a bottle by means of the device herein described the stem 8 is inserted through stopper 3 and placed in engagement with disk 7. Itis obvious that by turning the stem 8 disk 7 may be securely clamped against the lower end of the stopperand will prevent the escape of liquid therebetween. As'the head 9 extends over the upper end of the passage 13, formed within the center of stopper 3, it will be understood that it will also serve to prevent the escape of liquid. After the parts have been assembled as herein described the stopper is inserted into the bottle-neck and held therein by the springs 4. In order to draw liquid from the bottle, the stem Sis rotated by means of head 9 until the disk 7 is released. Disk 12 will promptly draw the disk 7 downward upon the surface of the liquid contained within the bottle, and said liquid will then be free to How outward from the passage 13. It will be understood that subsequent to the release of disk 7 it will be impossible to bring the disk back to its original position at the lower end of stopper 3, and therefore should the bottle be refilled the displaced disks will indicate that the bottle had been previously opened.

In the foregoing description I have shown the preferred form of my invention; but I do not limit myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and I therefore reserve the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination witha tubular bottlestopper having a concaved end provided with recesses; of a disk seated within said end, lugs thereon adapted to be seated within the recesses, and means for securing the disk and lugs in position upon the end of the stopper.

2. The combination with the tubular bottlestopper having a concaved end and recesses in said end; of a convex disk normally seated within said end, lugs thereon adapted to project within the recesses, a stem projecting longitudinally through the stopper and dethrough the stopper and detachably secured tachably secured to the disk, at head to the to the disk and a head to the stem bearing stem bearing on the stopper and a weighted upon the stopper. disk connected to the first-mentioned disk and I5 5 3. The combination with the neck of a botsuspended therefrom.

tle having recesses in the inner faces thereof; In testimony whereof I affix my signature of a tubular stopper seated within the neck, in presence of two witnesses.

spring-strips secured to the stopper and adapt- WILLIAM H. WRIGHT.

ed to project into the recesses, a disk, lugs Witnesses: IO thereon adapted to engage the stopper and JOHN W. SOHLABECKER,

prevent rotation of the disk, a stem projecting JAMES L. BUCKINGHAM. 

